Passing the torch

Monterey Fish Co. grows from guppy to a global presence

7:26 PM,
Oct. 2, 2013

Written by

Robert Walch
For Off 68

For three generations, the Tringali family has been harvesting Monterey Bay. Now it is up to Sal Tringali, the president of Monterey Fish Company, to see that the family business continues to grow and prosper.

Under Tringali and his brother Anthony, the company's vice president, the Salinas-based Monterey Fish Company has become a major processor of California sardines, mackerel and squid.

In the late 1920s, Tringali's grandfather and namesake, Sal, moved from Sicily to San Francisco where he fished with family members. In the mid-1930s, the young fisherman then relocated to Monterey ...